Andy Brown
@andybrown202.bsky.social
Features editor at GamesRadar+ / Teemo's humble manservant / video game enjoyer who gets lost leaving Newcastle
For work: andrew.brown@futurenet.com
For work: andrew.brown@futurenet.com
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Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak.
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
Dispatch's success shows a way forward for a struggling AA narrative genre
Opinion | Dispatch is an adventure game that ditches age-old "adventure" gameplay – and it shows how similar titles could re-find their purpose
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November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak.
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
becoming a perpetual lemsip stew
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
becoming a perpetual lemsip stew
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Our Big Preview rollout for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a-go, with more to come from @mroscartk.bsky.social, @andybrown202.bsky.social, and myself! 🥰 Shout out to @agameofjoes.bsky.social for bringing the latest build in for me to try out 🧚 🦟 👀 👇
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a "great pleasure" and a "great responsibility" for its superfan CEO, and he's governed by one guiding principle: "Heroes is for everyone"
The Big Preview | Unfrozen's Denis Fedorov on how his team of strategy game enthusiasts are breathing new life into the iconic franchise
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Our Big Preview rollout for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a-go, with more to come from @mroscartk.bsky.social, @andybrown202.bsky.social, and myself! 🥰 Shout out to @agameofjoes.bsky.social for bringing the latest build in for me to try out 🧚 🦟 👀 👇
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
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GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer.
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer, GamesRadar+ - Future Publishing
GamesRadar+ is the games, movies, TV, and comics website that upgrades your downtime; helping you spend your free time wisely.On GamesRadar+ we always aim to inform, entertain, and inspire through our...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer.
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
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We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
Guides Writer, GamesRadar+ - Future Publishing
Future's Games group creates international, market-leading content, delivered through scale websites GamesRadar and PC Gamer, award-winning print brands, and Events that reach millions of gamers.The g...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
Fast travel is real (it's called playing balatro on the train)
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Fast travel is real (it's called playing balatro on the train)
chrome trying to load more than two tabs on hotel wifi
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
chrome trying to load more than two tabs on hotel wifi
Just watched episode 5 (this is now more mandatory)
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just watched episode 5 (this is now more mandatory)
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Lil Lumines Arise review - still a puzzle format that gives me incredible highs and anxiety-ridden lows, but a lot of fun. I also grapple with the strange nature of reviewing iterative puzzle games.
Lumines Arise review: "Just as effective as Tetris Effect, block matching to a beat becomes a transcendent experience"
The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+
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November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lil Lumines Arise review - still a puzzle format that gives me incredible highs and anxiety-ridden lows, but a lot of fun. I also grapple with the strange nature of reviewing iterative puzzle games.
please watch the chair company (mandatory)
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
please watch the chair company (mandatory)
Watched Heat and Aliens for the first time this weekend and fear the dads were right on these ones 👁️
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Watched Heat and Aliens for the first time this weekend and fear the dads were right on these ones 👁️
Played Radiolight for this week's Indie Spotlight, and it's made me *very* excited to rewatch Twin Peaks over Christmas. Lovely, horrible little game about walking in the woods at night 🔦
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www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game
Indie Spotlight | There's something very, very strange in these old woods
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November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Played Radiolight for this week's Indie Spotlight, and it's made me *very* excited to rewatch Twin Peaks over Christmas. Lovely, horrible little game about walking in the woods at night 🔦
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
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Hi! Me and several others are putting together a series of streams over the next week to help support @begroom.bsky.social and his partner Jen as they bounce back after a medical emergency with her ongoing fight with MG. Please come tune in, join us, and donate to their gfm, if you can!
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hi! Me and several others are putting together a series of streams over the next week to help support @begroom.bsky.social and his partner Jen as they bounce back after a medical emergency with her ongoing fight with MG. Please come tune in, join us, and donate to their gfm, if you can!
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The originally pitched headline for this was "Pokemon Legends: Z-A's platforming can go to hell" and I stand by it
Pokemon Legends: Z-A's mindless platforming is driving me up a wall because it won't let me jump over them
Now Playing | Something there is that doesn't love a scaffolding: me
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The originally pitched headline for this was "Pokemon Legends: Z-A's platforming can go to hell" and I stand by it
Getting into watching football (see: one club) has been disastrous for my time spent doing the things that truly matter in life (see: playing final fantasy 12 in bed)
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Getting into watching football (see: one club) has been disastrous for my time spent doing the things that truly matter in life (see: playing final fantasy 12 in bed)
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Playing Pokemon Legends:Z-A has made me realise what I've been morning from all Pokemon titles ever since 2018: the feeling of Ash/Pikachu companionship. Big thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for letting me shout about it
I've been waiting 6 years for Pokemon to bring back its cutest features, and Pokemon Legends: Z-A has given me hope that I'll get what I want soon
Pokemon Legends: Z-A has given me hope that the next game we get will let me live out my anime fantasy
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October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Playing Pokemon Legends:Z-A has made me realise what I've been morning from all Pokemon titles ever since 2018: the feeling of Ash/Pikachu companionship. Big thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for letting me shout about it
every writer has exactly four words they eternally have to ctrl + f to see if they've used too much
October 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
every writer has exactly four words they eternally have to ctrl + f to see if they've used too much
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I wrote about the "Dratini roof" of Pokémon Legends: Z-A and how the original Dragon type line-up has come to represent the simultaneously goofy and enchanting scope of Pokémon as a whole: www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemo...
Pokemon Legends: Z-A put my favorite Pokemon on a random roof, and it couldn’t have been a more fitting spot
Opinion | The Dratini line represents the scope of Pokemon like few others
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October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote about the "Dratini roof" of Pokémon Legends: Z-A and how the original Dragon type line-up has come to represent the simultaneously goofy and enchanting scope of Pokémon as a whole: www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemo...
The Face Of Evil: the preview crasher is back to his old tricks
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The Face Of Evil: the preview crasher is back to his old tricks
This feels far too evergreen, but we're always open for feature pitches at pitches@gamesradar.com, and my personal email is in bio.
I get to work with so many brilliant writers, and there's always room for more ❤️
I get to work with so many brilliant writers, and there's always room for more ❤️
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This feels far too evergreen, but we're always open for feature pitches at pitches@gamesradar.com, and my personal email is in bio.
I get to work with so many brilliant writers, and there's always room for more ❤️
I get to work with so many brilliant writers, and there's always room for more ❤️
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Typically fire review from @jazzgouldwilson.bsky.social about why VTM Bloodlines 2 just doesn't quite work. I feel exactly the same, but Jasmine puts it better than could! Simply a great read.
I waited over 20 years for this Vampire RPG sequel, and it sucked the life out of me – Bloodlines 2 is a bitter disappointment
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is the definition of a crying shame. Clumsy writing and flat, repetitive world design expose a handful of good ideas that never take root.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Typically fire review from @jazzgouldwilson.bsky.social about why VTM Bloodlines 2 just doesn't quite work. I feel exactly the same, but Jasmine puts it better than could! Simply a great read.
cinema etiquette is dead
October 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
cinema etiquette is dead
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My biggest problem with No Man's Sky in 2025 is that it's too good and won't stop getting better. What? Huh? Read my latest for #GamesRadar to find out what I mean: www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
No Man's Sky's biggest problem in 2025 is being too good, and now I'm trapped in a vicious cycle
Now Playing | Hello Games won't stop adding to and improving on its spacefaring behemoth, and therefore I won't stop making new toons
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October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My biggest problem with No Man's Sky in 2025 is that it's too good and won't stop getting better. What? Huh? Read my latest for #GamesRadar to find out what I mean: www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
Not Pokemon-related, but still cool - I interviewed Aaron Paul to chat about his role as a dispatcher for deadbeat superheroes in Dispatch!
Ft Bojack Horseman, Resident Evil, and one actor who is very excited to get his kids into games:
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
Ft Bojack Horseman, Resident Evil, and one actor who is very excited to get his kids into games:
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul has "always wanted" to be in a game, but The Boys-esque superhero comedy Dispatch was the first truly irresistible role: "Nothing really felt like the right fit"
Interview | The Telltale-style game sees Aaron Paul play Robert Robertson, a hero-turned-dispatcher for an invisible asthmatic and a man-bat who does investment fraud
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October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not Pokemon-related, but still cool - I interviewed Aaron Paul to chat about his role as a dispatcher for deadbeat superheroes in Dispatch!
Ft Bojack Horseman, Resident Evil, and one actor who is very excited to get his kids into games:
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
Ft Bojack Horseman, Resident Evil, and one actor who is very excited to get his kids into games:
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
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it’s time we talk about one of the most important parts of a great horror game: the creepy doll
the haunted dolls in silent hill F and bloodborne, in particular, are the most perfect chariots through the underworld
i’d be lost in the nightmare without them…🕊️
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
the haunted dolls in silent hill F and bloodborne, in particular, are the most perfect chariots through the underworld
i’d be lost in the nightmare without them…🕊️
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
The best part of Silent Hill f is also my favorite from Bloodborne, and it has nothing to do with "Soulslike" combat
Opinion | It's not always a haunted doll, but it's usually a haunted doll
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October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
it’s time we talk about one of the most important parts of a great horror game: the creepy doll
the haunted dolls in silent hill F and bloodborne, in particular, are the most perfect chariots through the underworld
i’d be lost in the nightmare without them…🕊️
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...
the haunted dolls in silent hill F and bloodborne, in particular, are the most perfect chariots through the underworld
i’d be lost in the nightmare without them…🕊️
www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...